Recent content by Big Fin
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Moosie is looking for investors
The guy who started this joint and sold it to me in 2009, Oscar, a/k/a @Moosie, has a camo clothing company, Catch & Release Camo. He just posted a YouTube video seeking investors in his clothing operation.- Big Fin
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- Forum: Money and Finances
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2025 NM draw results
We're soaking in RED around here. Not unexpected.- Big Fin
- Post #248
- Forum: Tag, Applications, Maps & E-Scouting
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Bill to end perpetual DOI conservation easements
I wish I could say I was surprised. The empowerment felt by the anti-public land, anti-conservation, "government is your enemy" crowd is pretty much without bounds at this time. It will be interesting to see where this goes, or if it is just virtue signaling.- Big Fin
- Post #8
- Forum: Sportsmen Issues
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End of Grizzly Delisting?
A lot of people wonder how we Congressionally delisted grey wolves in MT, ID, and WY, but we can't do the same in the Midwest or do the same with Grizzly Bears. The link above shows that we got Congressional delisting of grey wolves, which is because of how the reintroduction deal was...- Big Fin
- Post #36
- Forum: Sportsmen Issues
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End of Grizzly Delisting?
When it comes to hunting, conservation, and public lands, very few in DC could give a damn. Very few being a very small minority.- Big Fin
- Post #28
- Forum: Sportsmen Issues
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End of Grizzly Delisting?
A week in DC and a follow up day of conference calls with folks in DC tells me this is reality. When I went there, I figured it was partially hyperbole. Nope. Lots more to come that is gonna hammer the things important to hunting and conservation. Hopefully folks will get it out of their system...- Big Fin
- Post #26
- Forum: Sportsmen Issues
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Selling Public Land for Budget Reconciliatory Bill
We're not talking serious math when it comes to the US Budget. Only complication is in Congress and the whining constituents who want services beyond what they are willing to pay for. Gross revenues - $4.92 Trillion Mandatory expenditures (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Interest) - $4.13...- Big Fin
- Post #38
- Forum: Public Land Issues
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End of Grizzly Delisting?
That is surely the rumor around his appointment. And in politics, rumors gain a lot of traction. I think his selection was more of his understanding of the ESA, coming from his experience in Wyoming where so many ESA surface. Also Wyoming giving him experience in many other wildlife issues of...- Big Fin
- Post #19
- Forum: Sportsmen Issues
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End of Grizzly Delisting?
That is hard to envision, given how far down the priority list these issues are when compared to economy, budgets, tax cuts, immigration, tariff, etc. Both sides, in Congress and the Administration, are ready to burn most of their political capital on those topics at the top of their lists...- Big Fin
- Post #18
- Forum: Sportsmen Issues
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End of Grizzly Delisting?
Correct. And yes, DOA in the Senate. The best route on feral horses will be to use the same litigation tactics we see from the other side. Our failure to litigate gives the BLM and the courts a path of least resistance. So long as there is a path of less resistance, that is the path it will...- Big Fin
- Post #15
- Forum: Sportsmen Issues
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Stafford Ferry CE
Another FWP Commission Agenda is published and still no mention of voting on the Stafford Ferry Conservation Easement. April agenda just published here - https://fwp.mt.gov/aboutfwp/commission/april-2025-meeting It seems someone is wanting to "run out the clock" on this one. I'm not inclined...- Big Fin
- Post #140
- Forum: BIG THREE - Moose, Goat, Sheep
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End of Grizzly Delisting?
The bolded parts are not that easy under the ESA and other Federal laws. The agencies must demonstrate that the mechanisms are in place so that the species cannot be endangered in the future by changes in habitat, state laws and governance for that species at the state level, etc. If the Feds...- Big Fin
- Post #13
- Forum: Sportsmen Issues
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End of Grizzly Delisting?
Westerman is good on hunting issues. He's a big time hunter. He gets hammered by some, but I like his pragmatic approach to most issues. Unfortunately, this effort will die in the Senate and it will be used as a fund raising option for the litigator groups. I wish it was different. If we watch...- Big Fin
- Post #9
- Forum: Sportsmen Issues
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End of Grizzly Delisting?
What you mention is a scenario many dream of. I don't have that dream. Like I said above, there will likely never be 60 votes in the Senate to repeal the ESA. Just a fact. I would like to see some small tweaks to the ESA, but even those will never happen. When any of the small tweaks are...- Big Fin
- Post #6
- Forum: Sportsmen Issues
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End of Grizzly Delisting?
Congressional delisting is pipe dream. It takes 60 votes in the Senate to stop debate and actually get a bill to a vote (other than budget bills). There is not a chance there are 60 votes in the US Senate for Congressional delisting, unless it is attached to a budget bill. The folks I talk to...- Big Fin
- Post #5
- Forum: Sportsmen Issues
